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When I use the command line rather than the finder to mount a network volume, and I want the mount point to be in /Volumes, do I need to create the mount point myself first? If so, how should I do that so i still can unmount from the UI without problems? The finder seems to ignore the actual share, so the mount point it creates is /Volumes/HOST._afpovertcp._tcp.local without a reference to the share.

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    Commented Sep 14 at 7:15
  • Can I use the command line to mount an afp network share so the result is exactly the same as if I used the Finder to mount this share? The problem I see is that the mount point created by the finder can differ, they seem to be /Volumes/HOST._afpovertcp._tcp.local for the first share of a network volume, but subsequent shares are mounted on /Volumes/SHARE
    – Paul Janssens
    Commented Sep 14 at 7:50
  • open afp://user@HOST/SHARE is almost identical to the Finder behaviour, with the exception that it will prompt me for the password, while to Finder allows that to be permanently remembered
    – Paul Janssens
    Commented Sep 14 at 8:59
  • if I use the exact url the finder uses, open afp://HOSTNAME._afpovertcp._tcp.local/SHARE causes the dialog box in the Finder to be prefilled with the cached password, but a click is still needed :-(
    – Paul Janssens
    Commented Sep 14 at 9:13

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To replicate what happens when you mount a network share in the Finder, use a command of this form:

osascript -e ‘mount volume "afp://user:password@HOST/SHARE”’

To mount an SMB share, replace “afp” with “smb”. The user name and password can be omitted if the command is executed in a local shell on the file-sharing client, the credentials are stored in the Keychain, and the Keychain is unlocked.

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  • Thank you. This command can indeed be used to mount a network share with no prompt, i.e. using cached credentials, provided you use the exact same url as the finder, so in my case afp://HOST._afpovertcp._tcp.local/SHARE.
    – Paul Janssens
    Commented Sep 15 at 7:33
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You can use the mount command to mount a network volume to any existing directory (or in other words: yes, you need to create it first before mounting). It has been a while since I used AFP, but

sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/afpshare
sudo mount "afp://user:password@HOST/SHARE" /Volumes/afpshare

should work.

Any mounted volume shows up in Finder and can be ejected from there.

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This should work

sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/mount_point # only need to do this once
sudo /sbin/mount_afp 'afp://user:passwd@host/share' /Volumes/mount_point
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